Weird Trivia Facts About You

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Hmm.

I have to eat food in a certain order. Savories before sweets, milk before fruit, you get the idea.

The Seattle Public School District had to change or clarify several rules just because of me, and add a whole new category of prohibited items (olfactory devices).

When I was in kindergarten, I could spell 'vegetable'.

and when I was 5, I stunned my mother by reading a children's book on my own...that was written in *cursive text*! I'd never seen that style before, but I could still make out the basic shapes of letters.

I built the computer I am currently sitting at.
I am addicted to caffeine. Severely.
My family can hardly afford broadband.
When i was in kindergarten my teacher thought I was OCD and that is how I was diagnosed with AS.
I listen to classic rock.
I have a paper route.
I compulsively eat potato chips.

i am hard of hearing
I can play the karimbu
i can't whistle

I fit two of the three, If I knew what a karimbu was, I'd might learn to play it. I taught myself how to play the piano.

its this weird african thing

I almost became the answer to a trivia question. There was a band in the Northeast US that had been playing in bars. A couple of executives from MTV caught their show and invited them to shoot a video for one of their songs. The day before the shoot, the keyboard player quit the band because his wife didn't want to be a wife whose husband was on the road more often than home. They never got another keyboard player.

Where I would have fit in: The band's name was "Red Thunder". The drum had a hand with a red lightning bolt coming out of it. It was my hand that posed for the drum.

- I won 1st Place in my school science fair when I was in 2nd-3rd grade.
- I later won 2nd Place in the state science fair in 5th grade.
- I have slight vore/inflation/weight-gaining fetishes. (only in cartoons, though; real life fetish videos are gross.)
- I was put into a 3rd grade class when I was in Kindergarden.
- My deadly sin is envy.
- I still can't tie my shoes.

-I could name all the NASCAR drivers by name and number by the time I was 5!
-My favorite television show is The X Files
-I like AC360 on CNN (Yay Anderson, you the man!)
-I enjoy watching certain infomercials for local Orlando buisnesses (Appliance Direct!)
-have bad allergies to pollen

I was the only one in my kindergarden class who could read. My mother said I somehow taught myself.
I was born almost 2 months premature and weighed about 3 and a half pounds at birth.

I am able to attract animals to me, birds and squirrels, and I don't talk much.

I wrote left-handed during a good portion of high school. While I never got seriously hurt playing football or hockey, I either sprained or jammed my right middle finger nine times between playing basketball and volleyball. I also broke my collarbone running, my ankle roller-skating, and did major damage to my shoulder jogging.

- I can hear up to about 32kHz.

- Heat and cold hardly affect me.

- I can do simple circuit simulations in my head.

Dox47....what, exactly, in this context, is an 'olfactory device?' I mean, presumably some kind of smelly object, but....please explain. I'm intrigued.

In this case, an "olfactory device" would be a glass ampule full of hydrogen sulfide, which smells like rotten eggs. My mother owned a candy and toy store when I was in middle school, so I was able to get them wholesale for 50 cents per box of three, then turn around and sell them at school for a buck each. Needless to say, a rash of stink-bombings ensued, and when they eventually traced it back to me they discovered that they had nothing in the rule books specifically addressing such devices, hence the rule change. I've always been proud of that section in the rules, it's sort of a family tradition, my father having been kicked out of Seattle public schools in the 40's.